Love In The Wild
Think of this podcast like your group chat, your therapist, and your favorite rom-com all rolled into one. Love In The Wild is where self-love meets situationships, healing meets humor, and we learn how to date without losing our damn minds.
Hosted by Katelyn Ansari—your go-to hype girl for glow-ups, boundaries, and calling out red flags—you’ll get weekly episodes full of hot takes, heart-to-hearts, and maybe a little tough love (the loving kind, obviously).
Whether you're deep in your healing era, deleting and re-downloading dating apps for the 87th time, or finally learning how to put you first—you belong here.
Grab your iced coffee, your journal, or just your earbuds. Let’s laugh, cry, and thrive through it all. New episodes every week. Let’s get into it.
Love In The Wild
Reframing Love: Avoidant Isn’t Cold, Anxious Isn’t Needy with Dean Blankfield
Are you anxious in relationships and tired of being called “clingy”? Or maybe you lean avoidant and people think you’re “cold” or “emotionally unavailable”? In this episode of Love In The Wild, relationship coach Dean Blankfield and I break down the biggest myths about attachment styles — and why anxious and avoidant partners are not what they’re labeled to be.
Dean is a relationship coach who specializes in attachment patterns. He helps people stuck in painful relationship dynamics understand themselves and become more secure. He’s coached hundreds of anxious and avoidant attachers and is known for making attachment easy to understand and practical to implement. Interested in working with Dean? Send him a DM on Instagram at @DeanBlankfield!
In episode 5, we dive deep into:
- What “anxious attachment” really means (and why it’s NOT the same as being needy)
- Why avoidant partners aren’t cold, distant, or heartless — they’re protecting themselves
- How these misunderstood dynamics fuel toxic relationship cycles
- Practical ways to reframe anxious-avoidant conflicts into opportunities for deeper intimacy
- The path to building a secure relationship in 2025 and beyond
If you’ve ever Googled “why am I so needy in relationships” or “why is my partner emotionally unavailable” — this episode will change the way you see yourself, your partner, and love itself.
✨ Whether you’re single, dating, or in a long-term relationship, this conversation will give you the language, tools, and mindset shifts to stop the blame game and start creating lasting, secure love.
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